Shake Hands Forever Audio Worksheet - Macmillan Readers

Listening Worksheet Pre-intermediate
Shake Hands Forever
Ruth Rendell
The story step by step
1 Listen to Chapter 1 on your CD/download. Then match the descriptions below to the characters –
Robert Hathall (RH), Mrs Hathall (MH) or Angela (A).
a … knew that he’d had money problems _______
b …was getting nervous _______
c …‘s been cleaning the house to make it nice for you,’ _______
d …‘s meeting us with the car,’ _______
e … was looking around the car park for Angela and the car _______
f … was so surprised to hear her son say sorry for something _______
g … unlocked the front door _______
h … was going out to the garage to look for the car _______
i … climbed the stairs, checking for dust _______
j … lay face-down on the bed _______
Listen again to check your answers, then read pages 9–10 of your Reader.
2 Listen to Chapter 2 on your CD/download. The text below is an extract from Chapter 2 in which Burden
tells Wexford about the evidence. Listen carefully to the extract, and find six mistakes in the text
below.
‘There weren’t very many fingerprints in the house. Only some of Hathall’s prints, and some
of his mother’s. They probably made them after they came home yesterday evening. Angela’s
prints were on the front door, on the door from the kitchen into the hall, and on her bathroom
door. That’s all. Perhaps she wore gloves to do her housework. The only other prints were
those of an unknown male and one unknown woman. The man’s prints were only on the
books and on the inside of the bathroom cupboard door.’
Listen again to check your answers, then read page 18 of your Reader.
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Listening Worksheet Pre-intermediate
3 Listen to Chapter 4 on your CD/download. Circle the word you hear in the sentences from the chapter.
a Wexford pretended to look at Hathall’s list of the jewellery / stuff that was missing.
b ‘When my wife tried to stop him – he strangled / killed her.’
c ‘A thief / robber wouldn’t need to do that.’
d ‘A thief wouldn’t strangle your wife for fifty / fifteen pounds.’
e I got married seventeen years ago. Three / Two years later I knew that I’d made a mistake.
f ‘How did you meet Eileen / Angela?’
g ‘But by then, Craig and Butler had fired / sacked me because . . .’
h ‘After the divorce / separation, Eileen had my house and my daughter.’
i ‘Angela has a brother / cousin near here.’
j ‘After that, we only saw him once / twice.’
Listen again to check your answers, then read pages 24–25 of your Reader.
4 Listen to Chapter 6 on your CD/download. You will hear the words in the box below. One of the sounds
for each word is underlined. Group the words according to the underlined sound, either /s/ or /z/. There
are seven words for each sound. The first two have been done for you.
The extract begins when Nancy Lake has a conversation with Wexford.
busy was ask Wexford because clues his instead also
refuse Alexandra except maps hairs
/ s /
/ z /
ask
busy
You will find the conversation on page 34 of your Reader.
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Listening Worksheet Pre-intermediate
5 Listen to Chapter 8 on your CD/download. Put the events below in the order in which they happen in
Chapter 8.
a Wexford and Howard Fortune had lunch in a pub. _______
b Wexford and Fortune visited Eileen Hathall. _______
c Wexford went to the offices of Craig and Butler. _______
d Wexford had a telephone conversation with Burden. _______
e Wexford had a meeting with Charles Griswold. _______
f Wexford and Fortune drove to Kingsmarkham. _______
g Wexford talked to Fortune in the study. _______
h Wexford and Fortune visited the offices of Kidd and Company. _______
Read pages 41–46 of your Reader to check your answers.
6 Listen to Chapter 10 on your CD/download. Match the events in the lefthand column, to the place
names in the righthand column, below.
1 Howard parked the car near a Kilburn.
2 Robert and the woman walked off towards b Wandsworth Bridge.
3 Wexford arrived at c Bury Cottage.
4 By twelve o’clock Wexford was in d Half Moon Street.
5 Hathall hit Ginge when he was following him to the e Waterloo or the Elephant and Castle.
6 The 28 bus stops at f Wool Lane.
7 You would go to West Hampstead Underground and
change trains at
8 Wexford was excited and immediately drove to h Piccadilly.
9 Wexford walked into the garden at i 28 bus stop.
g Kingsmarkham police station.
10 Wexford took the necklace back to j Victoria Station just before half past
eleven.
You can check your answers on pages 53–55 of your Reader.
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Listening Worksheet Pre-intermediate
7 Listen to Chapter 13 on your CD/download. Complete the extracts below with the correct past tense
(simple, continuous or perfect) you hear.
a Wexford __________ (walk) down the garden. Lovat __________ (sit) on a wall by the river. He
__________ (smoke) a cigarette and _________ (watch) his men digging.
b ‘Let me guess,’ said Wexford. ‘Everyone __________ (think) that she __________ (go) to stay with her
mother. Her mother __________ (write) to her, but __________ (not get) an answer. Grey __________
(live) with another woman by then.
c The Monday and Tuesday of the week before Christmas __________ (pass) with nothing from Lovat.
Howard __________ (move) from West End Green to Notting Hill to watch for Hathall.
d Wexford __________ (push) through the crowds of Christmas shoppers to get to the court. He
__________ (find) a seat, then he __________ (look) around for the Chief Inspector. Lovat __________
(watch) the man.
Listen again to check your answers, and then read pages 65–67 of your Reader.
8 Listen to Chapter 14 on your CD/download, and complete the sentences with the words you hear – ‘at’
‘for’, ‘when’ or ‘since’.
a Howard phoned ________ eight o’clock on Friday morning.
b I had to go back to work ________ an hour or two.
c ________ four o’clock that afternoon, Wexford went to Nancy Lake’s house for tea.
d ‘Mark and I have been lovers ________ nineteen years,’
e ‘We were going to marry ________ my husband died,’
f ‘Were you thinking of his wife ________ you asked that?’
g ‘Hathall’s been at Dartmeet Avenue __________ three o’clock,’
h He came out of the house _________ 6pm.
i We both waited ________ about five minutes.
j Well, I have been watching him __________ some time now.
You can check your answers on pages 70–72 of your Reader.
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Listening Worksheet Pre-intermediate
9 Listen to Chapter 16 on your CD/download and mark the following sentences ‘True’ or ‘False’.
a It was nearly five o’clock when they got to the airport. ________
b Burden and Polly stayed at the airport. ________
c ‘Mr Hathall left this morning,’ the landlord told them. ________
d Suddenly he saw a sign outside the airport. ________
e It was crowded inside and it was difficult to get to the toilet. ________
f ‘There were four hundred people in here last night,’ said the barman. ________
g But he could see her. A girl with black hair. ________
h Around her feet were six bags. ________
i Wexford went quickly into the men’s toilet, and waited. ________
j They were waiting for a bus. ________
Listen again to check your answers, then read pages 76–78.
10 Listen to Chapter 17 on your CD/download, and complete the gaps in the extracts below with the word
you hear.
a ‘There’s more to tell you,’ said Wexford. ‘Yes, there was a __________ fraud. Hathall arranged two
________ accounts soon after he went to work at Kidd and Company. He __________ arranged more.
But Morag Grey wasn’t part of the __________. She was an __________ woman.’
b ‘What about the identification of the __________? Remember, Angela Hathall had no __________,’
said Wexford. ‘Mrs Lake knew her, and so did Mark Somerset. But we weren’t likely to ask them to
__________ the body.’
c ‘Angela started cleaning the house __________ before her mother-in-law’s ___________,’ Wexford
went on. ‘She had to clean off her own __________. She missed the __________ on the bath. That
and the L-shaped __________ were hers.’
d On the 19 th of __________, Angela drove to Myringham Old Town. She collected __________ and
drove her back to Bury Cottage. She took her upstairs to wash or use the __________. Then she
strangled her with Morag’s own __________. Next, she dressed Morag in the red __________ and
jeans, and put her face-down on the __________.
You can check your answers on pages 80–81 of your Reader.
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